Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART 1. OVERVIEW

The Practice of Electoral Democracy in the Arab East and North Africa: Some Lessons from Nearly a Century's Experience

PART 2. POWER AGAINST POWER

Populism and Democracy in Turkey, 1946-1961

Taxation without Representation: Authoritarianism and Economic Liberalization in Syria

State, Legitimacy, and Democratization in the Maghreb

Civil Society in Israel

PART 3. PRACTICAL POLITICS

Prospects and Difficulties of Democratization in the Middle East

American Policy toward Democratic Political Movements in the Middle East

Voices of Opposition: The International Committee for a Free Iraq

PART 4. THE SHADOW OF LAW

Public Confessions in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Obstacles to Democratization in Iraq: A Reading of Post-Revolutionary Iraqi History through the Gulf War

Private Goods, Public Wrongs, and Civil Society in Some Medieval Arab Theory and Practice

Index

Contributors